A new study in the UK has found that patients who recover from the Covid-19 may have an antibody response that makes them immune to the deadly virus only for a few months. Research, led by Dr Katie Doores of King’s College London, found levels of antibodies that can destroy the virus peaked about ...

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, visited the Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre (SPCCC) at Chhattarpur, New Delhi and reviewed the status of COVID-19 management at the Centre. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A 10,200-bedded “Sardar Patel COVID Care Centre” has been ...

WHO Director-General has announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Panel will be co-chaired by former Prime Minister of New ...

World Health Organization has admitted the possibility of airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus in closed, poorly ventilated, crowded places such as during choir practice, in restaurants or in fitness classes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The WHO has maintained that ...

The 18th meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was held under the chairpersonship of Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare by a video-conference on 9 July, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points At the outset, the GoM was ...

When a person carrying a pathogen tests negative as reported several times during the Covid-19 pandemic. These results have come up during nasal swab testing of patients who have seemingly recovered from the disease but have later been found to be still carrying the virus. Daily Current Affairs ...

Mylab Discovery Solutions in Pune has launched the ‘Compact XL’ system for conducting a wide range of tests, including RT-PCR tests for covid-19. The system can test 32 tests at a time on one system and there are options to connect multiple systems on one network, the company said in a press ...

Recently, scientists have designed a "catch and kill" air filter which claims to trap the novel coronavirus and neutralise it instantly, an invention that may reduce the spread of COVID-19 in closed spaces such as schools, hospitals and health care facilities, as well as public transit ...

Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells that help fight the virus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The study offers further evidence that a COVID-19 ...

The coronavirus is spreading at a fast pace in Assam and it is the latest entrant to the list of 10 states with the most active cases. The state has seen a 53% surge in the number of coronavirus patients under treatment over the past one week. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...